From Speech to Pure Visibility: A Problem in Foucaultâs Conception of Socratic Parrhesia

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This chapter carries out a critical assessment of Foucaultâs reading of Socratic parrhesia, which has as a key element the idea of pure visibility. His reading operates with an idea of visibilityâthe appearing to others of the visible figure of life ultimately conceived as being devoid of any relation to discourseâwhich is inadequate to account for Socratic parrhesia as a courageous telling of the truth in front of others. Foucaultâs idea of pure visibility is also inadequate to account for the extra-parrhesiastic aspects of the Socratic way of life. Within the framework of the extra-parrhesiastic dimension of Socratesâ way of life, the idea of visibilityâthe appearing to others of the visible figure of lifeâplays an important role but, rather than being pure, it presupposes an inner discourse and is appropriable a posteriori by a discourse that is either interior or externalized.

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Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy

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